What do YOU do with your platinum people?
laylei:
Perma Plat is kind of boring in regular play, but it's great in Legacy families. "Perma plat? THANK GOD. I never have to worry about you again!"
Brynne:
Where did you get that info, Gali? I never knew the family portraits had hidden meanings. Cool! I thought the "v" behind the head was like rabbit ears. My very first family ever created (long long long ago) had that sign, and the wife was doing the "v" behind her romance hubby's head. She was family. She was also playful. And she also wanted to cheat?! Oh, Maryanne Bayfield, you've disappointed me...acting all family-like and stuff. >:( But I've seen it after that by romance sims as well, which makes more sense. Still, sweet little innocent Maryanne secretly wanting to cheat disturbs me.
And I have fun with the perma-plat sims. I have a full house, and a few are perma plats. They are the ones who can now do all the soap opera story lines without worrying about fulfilling goals. Now it's playtime! I have enough non-perma plats in the house to keep me busy, otherwise. I do have one platinum teen, though, and I'm not sure what to do about him. I wasn't even trying to go for his lifetime goal. It just happened. He got 20 best friends and that was it. Over. So much for the Pleasure aspiration.
I play differently that most people, I think. I have my set of characters, keep them at certain ages, and play them through various storylines. I haven't gotten sick of them, yet. And I still get surprises, which adds to the fun. Like my super-faithful popularity sim who just had his first affair. He didn't reject a flirt by a female friend of his, and thanks to no romance mod, he developed a crush instantly. I decided to let him go with it, because he really hasn't had much of a storyline in a while. Always the ever-faithful hubby to his romance-wife (who really, really tried to be faithful. Really, she did.), and suddenly he's fathered a child by another woman from a one-night stand. The wife has "adopted" the child, though, and is raising him with the father. This was very recent, so she still has flaming thoughts of the "other woman" while making out with her hubby, though. So I'm not going through all the life stages, retiring elder sims to make room for the newer generation, which is how the game was intended to be played, I know. But I'm content doing it my way. So, platinum or not, it's almost meaningless to me. I'm just looking for the next juicy storyline.
Hook:
I think making Sims permanent platinum might have been a mistake. I think they'd be more fun to play if it took longer for aspiration to decay instead.
Currently, it takes 8 hours for a Sim with full platinum to decay into gold. It takes 16 additional hours to decay into green. If achieving a lifetime want added 50% to this time, you would have 12 hours of platinum and 24 of gold. Additional LTW's satisfied could add a similar amount, giving a purpose to getting additional lifetime wants.
At first I enjoyed playing perma-platinum Sims. After a while, it gets boring. The best use I've found so far for perma-platinum elders is staying home and taking care of grandchildren.
Achieving a lifetime want is a worthwhile goal; it gives my Sims something to do. Once it's achieved, about the only thing they're good for is having and raising kids. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm tired of raising Sim kids.
Hook
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Brynne on 2005 September 27, 05:10:14
I play differently that most people, I think. I have my set of characters, keep them at certain ages, and play them through various storylines. I haven't gotten sick of them, yet. And I still get surprises, which adds to the fun. Like my super-faithful popularity sim who just had his first affair. He didn't reject a flirt by a female friend of his, and thanks to no romance mod, he developed a crush instantly.
Ah, yes. I understand Nightlife makes this a royal pain in the neck, and field reports suggest that this is going to be very, very difficult to resolve.
Brynne:
There are quite a few added elements to be considered, that's for sure. But the way it is now, romance sims, or, rather, "successful" romance sims, can not go on a date downtown, lest they be slapped by all 40 sims they have bedded, who, of course, are also out for a rousing night of karaoke. They must stick to backyard barbeques for the time being. And a game of myshuno, perhaps, if they're feeling really crazy.
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